Summer Camps!

Emily has been keeping busy this summer with a number of different camps at Kirkwood High School. So far, it's been basketball, volleyball, and pommie camp. She had a Girl Scout camp at a local park last week, and her friend Maddie from Springfield is here this week for the long-awaited camp at the St. Louis Zoo.

Here are a few pictures from the camps so far. Emily's answer for which one was her favorite so far seems to change, but I think that she really enjoyed the volleyball camp.

Adam has been to dinosaur camp and garden camp, however I'm not sure that we have any pictures from those camps?!

Emily was excited to see a larger-than-life poster of one of her favorite babysitters, Claire, hanging from the rafters of the new gym at the high school.

Daddy's Little Helper

Adam is fascinated with tools. He has a specific interest in my impact driver and mag light, but he loves them all. Here are some pictures from a few nights ago. We had some shelving and a table to put together and I introduced Adam to a socket wrench.

Such concentration! I watched for the Joe Kreidler signature tongue to come out, but I don't think it happened.

Father's Day

This year's Father's Day was a creative one. Amy teamed up with some of the neighbors to make baskets of burgers and fries for their corresponding husbands. There were sugar-cookie fries, cupcake buns, brownie burgers, and frosting condiments, along with hand-crafted baskets. They turned out great.

The kids gave me a hand-painted ceramic picture frame that said #1 Dad with hearts made out of their fingerprints. Amy and Emily were trying to think of a picture to put in the frame. Adam disappeared and came back a few minutes later with a picture of the 2 kids from last fall that was hanging on his bulletin board.

The burger basket was quickly devoured, and the picture frame is proudly displayed in my office.

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to our Dads/Grandpas/Great Grandpas!

I'm done with Illinois

Ever since we left Springfield, I have been keeping up-to-date on what's going on in Illinois State Government by reading the State Journal-Register newspaper, and I've had the Capitol Fax Blog on my Google Reader.


I deleted Capitol Fax from my reader list yesterday. I just don't care about what's happening over there anymore. I think it's just another of the 12 steps in my transition to St. Louis.

From This to That

From this: and this...

to this....

Almost there! We can soon evict all toys from the main level to their new home in the finished basement! We weren't planning on doing the basement this soon, but the deal was good, the time was right. The builders will be done Friday after only a few weeks. Gotta love the sluggish economy! People are here on time and ready to work. Not much else going on I guess!

Sunday in the Park

So I (we) have been bad bloggers. It just seems that with school out, all we have time for is running, working, playing outside, and sleep! Hopefully we can catch up this weekend.

Last Sunday, I ran early and we decided to head to Forest Park so that Amy could run and I could have a picnic with the kids and then walk over to the zoo for a while. The weather was perfect and the zoo was packed, but I can't tell you how nice it is to head out with these little guys now. Adam is good at staying close, and we have Emily who acts as a mother hen and is always watching out for her little brother.

Adam being Adam!

Government Hill with the World's Fair Pavilion in the background

Buddies